The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated… — Maura O'Halloran Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
He looked at the book, took my name, and consulted his records. Then he informed me I had been lost at sea… — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
The boxing promotion part is really interesting, because I got the chance to do something with my sons. They carry their own… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized,… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
I went through an evolutionary process of learning to have a voice and how to use it, knowing when to step in.… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wanted something so desperately that you imagine it, day in and day out, until you have created an image… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
By connecting with one's Divine Self, Carol Whitaker has captured the essence of transformation from within. Like a diet for the mind,… — Laura M. Brotherson Copy Share Image
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if… — David Weber Copy Share Image
A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that… — Marcel Conche Copy Share Image
It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating,… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“What Zograffi would have to realize was that Elie had come to the end, and there was no farther-on for him. Nothing.… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
A shrieking rise of power rushed into my pathways, rocking me against the wall. Ido's body slammed into mine. He was not… — Alison Goodman Copy Share Image
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have been in the industry for many years now, but people still come up to me and say, 'Sir, you're such… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent in Russia. There's no doubt in anyone's mind that the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, stick up for yourself whether you have spiky hair, long hair, blonde hair, black hair, whatever… — Michael Sorrentino Copy Share Image
